Did you know that some guy worked out how much the MIR space station weighed, and figured it would take something like 250 trips to bring that much weight up there using the methods the public is aware of.

J. Frank Parnell:Did you know that some guy worked out how much the MIR space station weighed, and figured it would take something like 250 trips to bring that much weight up there using the methods the public is aware of.

After reading it again, I think what they meant was that 3 astronauts consume 7 tons of supplies over the course of 6 months. That has to include water, air, and everything else needed to survive, not just food.

J. Frank Parnell:Did you know that some guy worked out how much the MIR space station weighed, and figured it would take something like 250 trips to bring that much weight up there using the methods the public is aware of.

I don't think that's true. The core modules of MIR were all launched via unmanned systems, then later assembled by manned flights. I'd agree the technology to launch these large umanned modules is sketchy, but the payload size of 20 tons isn't crazy at all. The apollo landers weighed 15 tons.

After reading it again, I think what they meant was that 3 astronauts consume 7 tons of supplies over the course of 6 months. That has to include water, air, and everything else needed to survive, not just food.

After reading it again, I think what they meant was that 3 astronauts consume 7 tons of supplies over the course of 6 months. That has to include water, air, and everything else needed to survive, not just food.

Exactly. They each need about 60 Big Macs of air, water, food, and other supplies every day.

J. Frank Parnell:Did you know that some guy worked out how much the MIR space station weighed, and figured it would take something like 250 trips to bring that much weight up there using the methods the public is aware of.

After reading it again, I think what they meant was that 3 astronauts consume 7 tons of supplies over the course of 6 months. That has to include water, air, and everything else needed to survive, not just food.

Exactly. They each need about 60 Big Macs of air, water, food, and other supplies every day.

After reading it again, I think what they meant was that 3 astronauts consume 7 tons of supplies over the course of 6 months. That has to include water, air, and everything else needed to survive, not just food.

Exactly. They each need about 60 Big Macs of air, water, food, and other supplies every day.

Is that the new Rhose Island/Library of Congress of measurement?

Well, obviously.

That said, I'm betting that the crew are glad it's not actual bigmacs that their having. Think how welcome 'a fart in a space suit' is, then think of two other people faring in your space suit, on bigmacs!!1!

After reading it again, I think what they meant was that 3 astronauts consume 7 tons of supplies over the course of 6 months. That has to include water, air, and everything else needed to survive, not just food.

Exactly. They each need about 60 Big Macs of air, water, food, and other supplies every day.

Is that the new Rhose Island/Library of Congress of measurement?

Well, obviously.

That said, I'm betting that the crew are glad it's not actual bigmacs that their having. Think how welcome 'a fart in a space suit' is, then think of two other people faring in your space suit, on bigmacs!!1!

No, the ISS is not as big as the Blockade Runner (aka Corellian Corvette), it might be as long or as wide sure but one of those things has a substantially larger living space. Of course the ISS is pretty much the workmens shed for building an actual space station...

foo monkey:J. Frank Parnell: Did you know that some guy worked out how much the MIR space station weighed, and figured it would take something like 250 trips to bring that much weight up there using the methods the public is aware of.

So I gather that the ISS astronauts are forced to eat nothing but Big Macs because McDonald's owns the Star Wars restaurant tie-in rights, which means that they each must eat 60 Macs per day and they all look like Jabba the Hutt, and that in a few years the ISS will crash into Australia